Rev Belle seems to be under the impression that if we all stop singing \u201cJimmy Crack Corn\u201d, that will be a good start. I know it will be hard, you are probably humming it as you read this, but now you will have to stop. I have and I know I feel better for it.<\/p>\n
From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n Our television screens have been inundated with images of racial discord as thousands upon thousands band together to speak out against police brutality aimed at people of colour. There have been cries for justice, racial equality, defunding the police, \u2018Enough is enough!\u2019, and so on. For a while, it felt like there was a new instance of racial discrimination, perpetrated in a violent and, all too often, fatal manner, every other week. The rallying cry \u201cBLACK LIVES MATTER\u201d has been heard loud and clear for years now, as people all over the world stand in solidarity with Black people who have had to suffer life-threatening injustice for way too long. Enough is enough, indeed.<\/p>\n [\u2026.]<\/p>\n Sooo\u2026why do we need to worry ourselves with dismantling racism in the Diocese of Montreal? We\u2019re a bunch of God-fearing people, who love the Lord, and love each other. So many of us would insist that we don\u2019t have a racist bone in our bodies. Surely there\u2019s no anti-Black racism to dismantle here. Hang on. The lyrics printed at the beginning of this article come from a little ditty called \u2018The Blue-Tail Fly\u2019, a song performed during those delightful minstrel shows from the mid-Nineteenth century.<\/p>\n [\u2026.] The diocesan dismantler-in-chief, Rev Christopher Belle seems to think that the diocese is a veritable hotbed of racism, although he did have to reach back to the 1840s in order to find something to dismantle. This, of course, is how … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-01_230301.jpg\")
Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in the Diocese of Montreal<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWhen it was time, I took my song sheet. I looked it over. I heard somebody say, \u201cLet\u2019s sing Jimmy Crack Corn\u201d. I was on board. I knew this one. I did not know it was a full song. I scanned the page until I found the lyrics. I started to sing. And then I stopped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"